dread
Example Sentences
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Dread can also exist in response to the imagined if not the unthinkable where the very idea and possibility of the horrible may be worse than the real thing.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
Dread of the school drop-off line has been percolating for years.
From Slate • Sep. 3, 2024
Nobody would accuse the activist-artist Dread Scott of being a diplomat.
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
Dread is the rocket fuel that makes the engine work.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024
Dread was round him, and enemies before him in the pass, and his master was in a fey mood running heedlessly to meet them.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing dread
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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